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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

— Sarah Dessen

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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

This Lullaby (2002)

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

Someone Like You (1998)

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Someone Like You (1998)

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Dreamland (2000)

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

Dreamland (2000)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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